some of the venues have been preparing for years, there's a lot of associated infrastructure (parking for camera people, attendants etc, water, food...) even with outdoor events, but i am no expert sooo
Those other venues are the backups for if conditions don't improve. By delaying it they have more chances to have it in the river. If conditions don't improve by a certain date they will use the other venues.
I'm annoyed that you left out the funniest part of this story. The people are still angry with the mayor over accusations of corruption, so many people came together to map out the currents in the river to show places in the river and times where if you pooped in the river at that time and place, the current would carry the poop into the area where the mayor was supposed to be swimming. That's the most French thing I've ever heard.
I was an EMT in DC and we had a patient die of sepsis in just a few hours because she flipped her car into a ditch and - while upside down - ingested and inhaled the stagnant water in the ditch. There was some confusion on what to list as the cause of death.
I'd say the water seems to be why she ended up with the condition that killed her and is the biggest cause but all of it is relevant to write down. I would wish death certificates could include all relevant details.
Switzerland a wealthy country must have actually put in the engineering expenses and also the appropriate and necessary environmental policies to clean up the rivers. I'm not sure that everything that needs done is actually fully being done in every country even if officials might be pretending it's "so"
Little girl hair in Washington died because she got e.Coli from food hamburgers, to be exact, from a fast food restaurant to be nearly exact. She's spending the rest of her life dialysis now.
They had a tax payer funded service that did it for many years, but that became too expensive and they ended it. There was a large protest from people that didn't want to pick up their own dog's poop
@@nikolaideianov5092 been living here for 40 years, didn't see a single stray dog, sometimes some homeless people will let their dog roam free but you can spot who's dog it is.
@@ZomBeeQueeen It's gotten better, I'd say that 95% of poos are picked up now. It used to be zero pickup twenty years ago. But the civility back then was to do it in the street gutter, less than half. Dog owners really didn't realize how nasty it was. I remember in 2002 having dinner at a terrace and a dog owner bringing the dog to poop close to our table !
It’s actually far less filthy. That is to say, I saw a documentary of it taken a few days ago, and parts of the river looked like the Ganges. There’s also tons of industrial pollution from industrial boats in the river, so only testing for E. Coli from poop is nothing more than dramatic show. It’s still horribly unsafe to swim in if you are a believer in basic chemistry and carcinogens.
Almost every river in every developed country is cleaner than it was 30 years ago. Most cities dumped their untreated industrial waste and their sewage into rivers. In the US, the Clean Water Act (1972) stopped that. I grew up in Pittsburgh in the 1960s and 70s. The rivers were filthy-unusable for recreational boating, swimming, fishing, or as drinking water sources. Now they are clean enough to use for all those things, because of the Clean Water Act and EPA. Same thing with city air-every city had a brown layer of smog; now the air is orders of magnitude cleaner. The European Union enacted similar laws about 10 years later. People who hate environmental regulations are just too young to remember how horrible it used to be, or rich enough to protect themselves and to hell with everyone else.
Look to Japan... they solved this problem decades ago. And they have the largest city on Earth. Japan also solved their flooding problems, as well as retrofitted all their structures for earthquake resistance, and they use some of their stored flood waters to wash their streets off to keep them clean and free from ice or snow.
@@fritzy3057 They dug a system of massive tunnels underneath their cities, that can handle millions of gallons of water per hour, and store them in enormous underground tanks. They can then use these underground reservoirs for washing their streets and heating the water during the winter time, to prevent the streets from freezing over with snow or ice.
@@theantagonist801 Nah, it's a reality for them... just like the fact they have hardly any violent crime, and non-violent crime like theft is very low. Not saying they have all the answers, but clearly, they've figured stuff out far better than the U.S., despite having far fewer resources or finances to do it. But they also have far less ego & arrogance, so there is that.
For even more crazy and more optimistic, look for the Emscher, a river that Germany designated as the sewage of a whole region for about a century and then renaturized it. Part of it was building huge tunnels in parallel to it.
I loved the irony of this comparison. I see "Olympic size swimming pool" used as a frame of reference. I have no experience with it. I buy milk in gallons. I would understand gallons... I use this measure for gas in my vehicles too... just saying if you told me how long it would take to fill up an Olympics size pool in comparison to say a 12 gallon car with gas...
@@jeffparry2426 i also have no idea how many liters in an Olympic swimming pool, but judging by their size, conpared to Paris' size, i cant imagine they'd be enough
I don't think it's a very good option, I buy milk in liters, but the bigger the scale, harder it is to imagine it with such a miniscule measurement. That's why people compare big spaces to football fields even after they name the exact size, just so it's imaginable
In Germany, you can swim in any river (that is not too dangerous in terms of the current). Especially in big cities like Munich or here in Augsburg, this is part of the summer leisure activities.
The Isar is honestly Munich’s biggest perk. The shorelines are constantly full of people swimming during the summer. The water is so clean you could probably drink it.
That is a bold statement. Germany does have rivers that are not save because of (potential) bacteria too. In Lübeck the sewer water gets released into the Trave in case of heavy rain as example. Same thing with the Elbe and probably many other rivers. The mentioned river "Isar" was also pretty infectious, but was improved with modern filtering grounds. Just because a main reason for not being allowed to swim is the shipping in many city rivers doesn't mean we don't have bacteria problems. So even if we would host sports events in a city with a river and close the river for boats, we still have the same problem as paris in many city rivers.
There are a lot of people who swim in the Spree in Berlin, but quite honestly it's very unsafe. There are often instances where someone gets sick after swimming in it. But it's only because it's going through the entire city and is connected with the sewage system when there is heavy rain fall, unfortunately. Other rivers in Berlin are safe enough to swim in.
Speaking of poop in Paris, some thing I noticed when I lived there was that no one seemed to pick up after their dogs. You really had to watch where you stepped!
I live really close to the Ohio River. There used to be a river boat restaurant my high school orchestra would go to at the end of each school year. (It no longer exists as a big storm caused it to sink.) Anyway, I stepped out during the dinner once just to get fresh air a bit and I saw one of those plastic tricycles float down past me and the river boat. I was always told that the Ohio was filthy, but that woke me up to how bad the pollution really was.
@@MrNote-lz7lh Alright thank you? I don't really know what you're talking about so I think I still need the vido lol. Also want to see it discussed from a sustainability perspective xxx
@@MrNote-lz7lh yes, a very complex problem with a great order of magnitude has a very Obvious solution that can be explained over a 2 line comment 🤦🏻♀️
@@MrNote-lz7lh They tried that in Milwaukee, WI USA, and it didn't work. The holding tanks leaked ground water IN so it never was able to hold anywhere near what it was designed to hold. The system overflowed every storm sending waste into the lake. The Democrat run city wanted to SAVE money by not running new separate lines for storm water/waste water and made matters worst.
Is it strange to anyone else that time and again cities that host the games clean up very well before them? By strange I mean, why couldn't / wouldn't they just do that in the first place? Then maybe just keep it clean. Makes perfect sense to me. Am I out of line here?
It’s optimistic because she left out the part about the French planning to take synchronized dumps in the river to re-poop it so the mayor would be swimming in feces. 😂
It's using technology and science to undo years of damage we've done to the environments in our cities due to poor future planning. Sounds like an optimistic science to one day be able to swim in and enjoy the natural water features running through some of the biggest cities in the world. As they currently stand, most are just hazards that we have to avoid instead of places people can truly enjoy for their natural splendour.
@@rommelbhaskar All science is non-practical at first. Quantum computing was impossible 100 years ago. But to make something possible, we have to look at the problem and figure out the potential solutions. Not just go, this'll be too hard, and not even bother.
I heard when the residents found out the mayor was going to swim in the river they all decided to poo upstream at that time they even in toilets dangling over the river in a line I saw a picture lol there was a website where you could sign up to go and poo on the mayor lol
Cleo, I really enjoyed this video on the Paris Olympics. While I am waiting for a new longer form video from you, I like you mentioned in an interview that making shorter clips of longer form videos doesn't work and you actually make a whole separate video. This video is short, to the point and very interesting.
Emotional dislikes in politics are so silly. NYC is an exciting city to be. We just don't want a goofy clown/dictator in the top office again 🥱 Btw, if I were you, I would also do some research on nyc rivers. According to the health department, the waterway around nyc is now cleaner than it ever been since the 1800's.
@@campandcook3118 The NY City Health Dept has been among the best big city health departments for at least a century. Large cities around the world have modeled their own health departments on it, or modified theirs to emulate it. That's not to say it's perfect in every way. As part of a vast bureaucracy, it's funding levels fluctuate and so does it's ability to keep up with it's own standards. That doesn't make the whole dept untrustworthy.
We live in Cologne Germany and never had a problem with the water quality of Rhine River. All it takes is the community and city planners to anticipate water management properly. Relocate people and businesses if necessary to make changes.
Yes, but Paris did that 200y ago, and they decided that having bad quality water when it rains a lot wasnt really a big issue, considering that it was already a huge improvement from the nothing that was before. And now they are planning the needed infrastructure to keep it clean
Milwaukee did similar years ago. It was called the deep tunnel project. It was to keep waste water out of Lake Michigan and the beaches swimmable. It has mostly been successful.
Every time it rains for more than 1 hour it always overflows shit into the lake. The 'Deep Tunnels' leak ground water INTO it so fast so as to be next to useless.
All communities along the Upper Mississippi River are doing this now. CSO/ combined sewage overflow is a problem in small cities, too. I enjoy your optimistic video presentation.
To be clear, there are back up locations for all the events that would have been in the river except the triathalon. It’s just a lot harder to move because you’d also have to move the biking and running portions, finding and blocking off an entirely new route of the right distance and incline with spots for cameras and officials and watchers and water stations.
It is. Look at Melbourne, Australia. Sewage is piped to the city’s treatment plants organically separated and processed by sun and evaporated, solids used as local fertiliser for farms and livestock graze. Stormwater is piped separately to rivers, lakes, local ponds.
All of Germany does this. Treatment plants filter the water to a drinkable level and lead it into rivers. The solids are fermented and the bio-gas that is generated is used for district heating, power production and fed into the existing gas pipeline grid. At the end the solids are sold as fertiliser to farmers.
@@hape3862 Yea America would rather have there people drink the poo get sick and spend millions in hospital bills money is what makes the west go round
As an Australian this is surprising as, partly because of how modern our cities are, you can swim in the main rivers in the cities almost everywhere there aren't lots of boats.
@@vaibhav3946 yeah but our cities are as big as any large city in America. Melbourne and Sydney both have 8 mil plus and yet people still swim in the rivers all the time
They don't need to build an olympic swimming pool (they already have one). They need a large, long open body of water for the triatholon and marathon swimming which aren't done in a pool
The EPA actually funds the separation of combined sewer and stormwater systems, but even in the United States, which is a lot newer than Europe, there are a ton of cities that have combined systems.
@@matthewshields I mean, it _can_ , but you're dealing with an dense urban environment, a large area of older buildings with conservation requirements and a lot of subterranean infrastructure. Building any large-scale project through that is a _nightmare_ . Just take a look at how difficult Crossrail in London was to build.
EPA guidelines require the separation of any remaining combined sewer systems, meaning no sewage can be able to flow to a river during heavy rain events untreated. The fix is not easy and not cheap but it is getting done.
Or you could install *separate* sanitary sewer and storm drain networks. That way ONLY sewage goes to the treatment plant and ONLY run off goes to the rivers.
London has already solved the issue, the thames is a clean river by city standards already but we have a new super sewer, all built now and will start operations soon
However England rivers are far from pristine and locals are constantly complaining about E. coli outbreaks due to the same ‘poop in the waterways’ problem. Seaside resorts are shut down due to not being able to swim in the outfall near the beach. English sewage is a very big concern.
@@ValeriePallaoro Right?! I have read somewhere that you can't swim in 90% of the rivers and lakes in the UK whereas you can swim in 90% of the rivers and lakes in Germany.
There's also a significant problem of the "non-french residents" dropping their load anywhere, wiping with a hand, and wiping the hand on anything nearby, like a lamp post.
E. coli doesn't make you sick. It's just a normal thing in your microbiota. It's just used as a marker species to assess the water pollution by feaces.
That’s only partially correct. Some stains do not however other strains do. The ones she is talking of here do indeed make you sick. The swimmers at the Paris Olympics this year got very ill.
Well you dont have toilets and if youre brain is capable enough youd find out why they sh*t in the river p@jeet.Not everythings about the grape capital of the world P@jeet😀
It’s just a bit silly that they postponed the triathlon when there are other viable options less than an hour away
Totally agree
Yeah but then they couldn’t make that extra moola…. 💰
Eh it's all connected isn't it?
some of the venues have been preparing for years, there's a lot of associated infrastructure (parking for camera people, attendants etc, water, food...) even with outdoor events, but i am no expert sooo
Those other venues are the backups for if conditions don't improve. By delaying it they have more chances to have it in the river. If conditions don't improve by a certain date they will use the other venues.
Spoiler alert they didn't clean the Seine river. Swimmers caught E-Coli when they swam in it.
don't forget the vomiting 😂😂
@@pierrecoufinn7460 How could I? 😂😂😂
Yeah cause it wasn't just poop; but with Algerian people bodies too!!
@@aishaghalia1259…welp, thats racist 😅
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I'm annoyed that you left out the funniest part of this story. The people are still angry with the mayor over accusations of corruption, so many people came together to map out the currents in the river to show places in the river and times where if you pooped in the river at that time and place, the current would carry the poop into the area where the mayor was supposed to be swimming. That's the most French thing I've ever heard.
Right she missed the funniest internet gag\prank on a political figure in a while
This is the Definition of french.
Came here to say this, yeah Parisians literally crapped on their mayor, I wouldn’t be swimming in that
New York needs to do this!!!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 that is so creative. Trust the French 😂❤
I was an EMT in DC and we had a patient die of sepsis in just a few hours because she flipped her car into a ditch and - while upside down - ingested and inhaled the stagnant water in the ditch. There was some confusion on what to list as the cause of death.
I'd say the water seems to be why she ended up with the condition that killed her and is the biggest cause but all of it is relevant to write down. I would wish death certificates could include all relevant details.
Sepsis can kill you within hours of onset?
Oh lord
Why did antibiotics not kill the e coli? Was it found that she had a MRSA variant?
Thank you so much for the gratuitous addition to my nightmare fuel.
:) No, that was a joke, you medical types are awesome.
Its funny how they only try to solve problems when the olympics comes to town
Usually they just move them... Homeless
*The Olympic people have over 999 unread messages from single hot rivers nearby*
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i choked lmaooo
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The Olympic people are extremely loyal to seine or what it's name is, it seems 😔👍
@@Anime_enjoyer.08 🦍
In Switzerland most rivers and lakes were not swimmable in the 70s , nowadays you can swim quite everywhere . So change is possible
Switzerland a wealthy country must have actually put in the engineering expenses and also the appropriate and necessary environmental policies to clean up the rivers. I'm not sure that everything that needs done is actually fully being done in every country even if officials might be pretending it's "so"
The Netherlands should also look at Switzerland to get cleaner rivers and lakes.
What'd they do
Switzerland has way more money and has only 4x paris' people
@@robbymaria *1/4
As a French person can also confirm it’s because all the French decided to shit in the river so the mayor would swim in it
My dad told me about that before it happened it was funny
What about the dead bodies that your parents thrown in?
There is no french ppl in France anymore xD
What the hell I suddenly respect the French
Africans ?
I heard that the swimmers got so sick from swimming in the Seine
I really like you. The way you explain everything is simply awesome. Great job.
I had e-coli about a month ago and big emphasis on the "makes you very sick" part lmao worst week of my LIFE
Hope you are doing well now ❤❤
Hope u are doing better now!
I told u not to eat ass!
doesnt really sound like something to laugh your ass off over, shit your ass off might be closer?
Little girl hair in Washington died because she got e.Coli from food hamburgers, to be exact, from a fast food restaurant to be nearly exact. She's spending the rest of her life dialysis now.
Dog poop in the streets have been a common issue for decades too, they just don’t seem to pick up after their dogs
They had a tax payer funded service that did it for many years, but that became too expensive and they ended it. There was a large protest from people that didn't want to pick up their own dog's poop
It was.really bad when I was there in 1988.
@@CaptainMisery86you do realise that there are stray dogs that will shit anyways ?
@@nikolaideianov5092 been living here for 40 years, didn't see a single stray dog, sometimes some homeless people will let their dog roam free but you can spot who's dog it is.
@@ZomBeeQueeen It's gotten better, I'd say that 95% of poos are picked up now. It used to be zero pickup twenty years ago. But the civility back then was to do it in the street gutter, less than half. Dog owners really didn't realize how nasty it was. I remember in 2002 having dinner at a terrace and a dog owner bringing the dog to poop close to our table !
The mayor went in for a swim, CAREFULLY KEEPING HER HEAD OUT OF THE WATER
Tge water is tested. The whole point was totake GOOD PICTURES. That s why she showed her face.
I noticed that too.
Apparently she was rushed to the hospital for a day later fro explosive diarrhea
She dived later and the sport minister dived too…
Why are you so ignorant?
So... not for the health of their residents, but to host the Olympics, yes? That's wild.
Jennifer Garner + Natalie Portman = This chick
It was bad 30 years ago. I cant imagine what it's like now.
Significantly cleaner
💚 Thank you for your efforts. I really appreciate it. You are great!
It’s actually far less filthy. That is to say, I saw a documentary of it taken a few days ago, and parts of the river looked like the Ganges. There’s also tons of industrial pollution from industrial boats in the river, so only testing for E. Coli from poop is nothing more than dramatic show. It’s still horribly unsafe to swim in if you are a believer in basic chemistry and carcinogens.
Almost every river in every developed country is cleaner than it was 30 years ago. Most cities dumped their untreated industrial waste and their sewage into rivers. In the US, the Clean Water Act (1972) stopped that.
I grew up in Pittsburgh in the 1960s and 70s. The rivers were filthy-unusable for recreational boating, swimming, fishing, or as drinking water sources. Now they are clean enough to use for all those things, because of the Clean Water Act and EPA.
Same thing with city air-every city had a brown layer of smog; now the air is orders of magnitude cleaner.
The European Union enacted similar laws about 10 years later.
People who hate environmental regulations are just too young to remember how horrible it used to be, or rich enough to protect themselves and to hell with everyone else.
@l.a1532 🪞
Look to Japan... they solved this problem decades ago. And they have the largest city on Earth.
Japan also solved their flooding problems, as well as retrofitted all their structures for earthquake resistance, and they use some of their stored flood waters to wash their streets off to keep them clean and free from ice or snow.
How did they solve it?
@@fritzy3057 They dug a system of massive tunnels underneath their cities, that can handle millions of gallons of water per hour, and store them in enormous underground tanks.
They can then use these underground reservoirs for washing their streets and heating the water during the winter time, to prevent the streets from freezing over with snow or ice.
Japanese are efficient, not your typical country where nothing gets done on time or budget.
@@ericmcquisten sci-fi ah country
@@theantagonist801 Nah, it's a reality for them... just like the fact they have hardly any violent crime, and non-violent crime like theft is very low.
Not saying they have all the answers, but clearly, they've figured stuff out far better than the U.S., despite having far fewer resources or finances to do it. But they also have far less ego & arrogance, so there is that.
For even more crazy and more optimistic, look for the Emscher, a river that Germany designated as the sewage of a whole region for about a century and then renaturized it. Part of it was building huge tunnels in parallel to it.
Boosting this
Most stupid thing I've heard from a country done
She looks like she is on her periods !
It’s pathetic that modern cities can’t figure waste out.
Your voice is so soothing!
20 olympic swimming pools is nothing, volume wise for a city like Paris, especially not after a bit of rain
Sure is a good thing it didn’t rain recently, especially during the opening ceremony. Oh, wait…
I loved the irony of this comparison.
I see "Olympic size swimming pool" used as a frame of reference. I have no experience with it. I buy milk in gallons. I would understand gallons... I use this measure for gas in my vehicles too... just saying if you told me how long it would take to fill up an Olympics size pool in comparison to say a 12 gallon car with gas...
@@jeffparry2426 i also have no idea how many liters in an Olympic swimming pool, but judging by their size, conpared to Paris' size, i cant imagine they'd be enough
@@jeffparry2426 An Olympic sized pool holds roughly 660,000 gallons. So 20 is 13,200,000 gallons.
I don't think it's a very good option, I buy milk in liters, but the bigger the scale, harder it is to imagine it with such a miniscule measurement. That's why people compare big spaces to football fields even after they name the exact size, just so it's imaginable
In Germany, you can swim in any river (that is not too dangerous in terms of the current). Especially in big cities like Munich or here in Augsburg, this is part of the summer leisure activities.
The Isar is honestly Munich’s biggest perk. The shorelines are constantly full of people swimming during the summer. The water is so clean you could probably drink it.
That is a bold statement. Germany does have rivers that are not save because of (potential) bacteria too. In Lübeck the sewer water gets released into the Trave in case of heavy rain as example. Same thing with the Elbe and probably many other rivers. The mentioned river "Isar" was also pretty infectious, but was improved with modern filtering grounds.
Just because a main reason for not being allowed to swim is the shipping in many city rivers doesn't mean we don't have bacteria problems.
So even if we would host sports events in a city with a river and close the river for boats, we still have the same problem as paris in many city rivers.
There are a lot of people who swim in the Spree in Berlin, but quite honestly it's very unsafe. There are often instances where someone gets sick after swimming in it. But it's only because it's going through the entire city and is connected with the sewage system when there is heavy rain fall, unfortunately. Other rivers in Berlin are safe enough to swim in.
Not true! Don't swim in the Main in Frankfurt oder in the Rhein in Mainz, for instance.
Speaking of poop in Paris, some thing I noticed when I lived there was that no one seemed to pick up after their dogs. You really had to watch where you stepped!
I live really close to the Ohio River. There used to be a river boat restaurant my high school orchestra would go to at the end of each school year. (It no longer exists as a big storm caused it to sink.) Anyway, I stepped out during the dinner once just to get fresh air a bit and I saw one of those plastic tricycles float down past me and the river boat. I was always told that the Ohio was filthy, but that woke me up to how bad the pollution really was.
people started pooping in the river because they thought the sewage project was a waste of the town’s money
Could you please make a longer video about this? Like how we could clean water of these big cities??
Seems obvious enough. Bigger reservoirs and better separation of rain and sewage water.
@@MrNote-lz7lh Alright thank you? I don't really know what you're talking about so I think I still need the vido lol. Also want to see it discussed from a sustainability perspective xxx
@@MrNote-lz7lh yes, a very complex problem with a great order of magnitude has a very Obvious solution that can be explained over a 2 line comment 🤦🏻♀️
@theb1m has some
@@MrNote-lz7lh They tried that in Milwaukee, WI USA, and it didn't work. The holding tanks leaked ground water IN so it never was able to hold anywhere near what it was designed to hold. The system overflowed every storm sending waste into the lake. The Democrat run city wanted to SAVE money by not running new separate lines for storm water/waste water and made matters worst.
Under Paris: Netflix
I was literally thinking the same thing 😭
U mean the shark movie yesss exactly what I thought wen I heard the words seine river
Imagine a swimmer watched the Netflix show “Under Paris” before swimming in the seine river 💀💀💀
OMG I WAS THINKING OF THAT!
I WAS LOOKING FOR SOMEONE MENTIONING THIS
LET'S GOO SOMEONE SAID IT
I did so much reasearch on this in school! Love you Cleo!
Didn't the mayor end up getting sick from that?
Is it strange to anyone else that time and again cities that host the games clean up very well before them? By strange I mean, why couldn't / wouldn't they just do that in the first place? Then maybe just keep it clean. Makes perfect sense to me. Am I out of line here?
Money. There's an influx of money for the Olympics.
You COMPLETELY side-stepped the "Poop" story! People were intentionally pooping in the river BECAUSE the mayor was going to swim in it.
I wouldn't consider "slightly less poopy Seine" an optimistic science story😅😅😅
It’s optimistic because she left out the part about the French planning to take synchronized dumps in the river to re-poop it so the mayor would be swimming in feces. 😂
It's using technology and science to undo years of damage we've done to the environments in our cities due to poor future planning. Sounds like an optimistic science to one day be able to swim in and enjoy the natural water features running through some of the biggest cities in the world. As they currently stand, most are just hazards that we have to avoid instead of places people can truly enjoy for their natural splendour.
Optimistic but non-practical doesn't Qualify as science, it's trickery @@tyrannicpuppy
@@rommelbhaskar All science is non-practical at first. Quantum computing was impossible 100 years ago. But to make something possible, we have to look at the problem and figure out the potential solutions. Not just go, this'll be too hard, and not even bother.
Lol you can make anything "optimistic" haha 😄
And all the swimmers still got sick
Algerians were drowned in this River in 1961.
I heard when the residents found out the mayor was going to swim in the river they all decided to poo upstream at that time they even in toilets dangling over the river in a line I saw a picture lol there was a website where you could sign up to go and poo on the mayor lol
The idea that if you have more sewage than you can treat, you just tip the excess into the river, is insane
The river was the sewage system when Paris was built.
The year is 2210 and our waste has become an advanced smell weapon against soldiers in submarines…
Dang! The smell penetrated into the sub?! 😂
Cleo, I really enjoyed this video on the Paris Olympics. While I am waiting for a new longer form video from you, I like you mentioned in an interview that making shorter clips of longer form videos doesn't work and you actually make a whole separate video. This video is short, to the point and very interesting.
In India people call rivers as Population Control tool & organic fertilizer provider
Ooooh, that's what they meant when people said the French had to "get this 'sh*t' out of Paris before the Olympics" 😂
You know what's even better than New York with a clean river? Absolutely anyplace else.
Absolutely.. it’s a garbage city literally and figuratively
To each, his own. I ❤ NY!
Emotional dislikes in politics are so silly. NYC is an exciting city to be. We just don't want a goofy clown/dictator in the top office again 🥱 Btw, if I were you, I would also do some research on nyc rivers. According to the health department, the waterway around nyc is now cleaner than it ever been since the 1800's.
@@olindetroit7636ah, Imagine trusting the "health department" after 2021.
@@campandcook3118 The NY City Health Dept has been among the best big city health departments for at least a century. Large cities around the world have modeled their own health departments on it, or modified theirs to emulate it. That's not to say it's perfect in every way. As part of a vast bureaucracy, it's funding levels fluctuate and so does it's ability to keep up with it's own standards. That doesn't make the whole dept untrustworthy.
We live in Cologne Germany and never had a problem with the water quality of Rhine River. All it takes is the community and city planners to anticipate water management properly. Relocate people and businesses if necessary to make changes.
Yes, but Paris did that 200y ago, and they decided that having bad quality water when it rains a lot wasnt really a big issue, considering that it was already a huge improvement from the nothing that was before. And now they are planning the needed infrastructure to keep it clean
Relocate people?
🤮 Several olympic swimmers got sick after swimming in the Seine!
Germanys rivers are mostly clean 😅
Milwaukee did similar years ago. It was called the deep tunnel project. It was to keep waste water out of Lake Michigan and the beaches swimmable. It has mostly been successful.
Every time it rains for more than 1 hour it always overflows shit into the lake. The 'Deep Tunnels' leak ground water INTO it so fast so as to be next to useless.
Mostly ?
Same deal in Dublin, it'd be awesome to have a clean river
I just love the way you analyse and talk about these important matter ! Keep up the good work
All communities along the Upper Mississippi River are doing this now. CSO/ combined sewage overflow is a problem in small cities, too.
I enjoy your optimistic video presentation.
Yeah, not sure if you could build something like that underneath NYC
Yeah, imagine the poor construction guys running into aggressive turtles and their giant rat dad.
@@salvadorHombreTEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!!!!!
Constrution workers would need a pizza stash for every day they work down there.
They broke ground in NYC on a similar project in March 2023. It can hold 18 olympic swimming pools (12 mil gal)
If nyc can make subway lines, they can build sewage treatment facilities underground 🤷🏻♀️
To be clear, there are back up locations for all the events that would have been in the river except the triathalon. It’s just a lot harder to move because you’d also have to move the biking and running portions, finding and blocking off an entirely new route of the right distance and incline with spots for cameras and officials and watchers and water stations.
Thanks scientific Jennifer Garner
*the river Thames* 👁️👄👁️
This'll probably only be a one time use for the Olympics
We generaly handle our poop in an environmentaly stupid way. It could be used to extract fertilizer and other shit.(zing!)
It is. Look at Melbourne, Australia. Sewage is piped to the city’s treatment plants organically separated and processed by sun and evaporated, solids used as local fertiliser for farms and livestock graze. Stormwater is piped separately to rivers, lakes, local ponds.
You can't use human poop as a fertiliser for human food because it carries human diseases.
That would cost so much money to change everything and besides most politicians would rather pocket that money
All of Germany does this. Treatment plants filter the water to a drinkable level and lead it into rivers. The solids are fermented and the bio-gas that is generated is used for district heating, power production and fed into the existing gas pipeline grid. At the end the solids are sold as fertiliser to farmers.
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Yea America would rather have there people drink the poo get sick and spend millions in hospital bills money is what makes the west go round
Les Poop dans la Seine de Paris.
As an Australian this is surprising as, partly because of how modern our cities are, you can swim in the main rivers in the cities almost everywhere there aren't lots of boats.
For a huge country, you got a population of any large city😅 lucky you
@@vaibhav3946 yeah but our cities are as big as any large city in America. Melbourne and Sydney both have 8 mil plus and yet people still swim in the rivers all the time
U have an infectious energy. U need to think bigger than just this channel.. given a bigger audience u will explode!!! Very refreshing!! Thank you!
Build a tank to hold 20 olympic swimming pools instead of building one olympic swimming pool. Makes sense😂
They don't need to build an olympic swimming pool (they already have one). They need a large, long open body of water for the triatholon and marathon swimming which aren't done in a pool
Tell me you are dumb without telling me you are dumb.
Didn’t the French people find this revolting and decided to poop directly into the river
lol ye I forgot about that
The EPA actually funds the separation of combined sewer and stormwater systems, but even in the United States, which is a lot newer than Europe, there are a ton of cities that have combined systems.
But that only works if the outflow ends up in a treatment plant. If it’s directed to rivers and the ocean then that’s your problem right there.
@@ValeriePallaoro no you can reengineer any system to be separated.
@@matthewshields I mean, it _can_ , but you're dealing with an dense urban environment, a large area of older buildings with conservation requirements and a lot of subterranean infrastructure. Building any large-scale project through that is a _nightmare_ . Just take a look at how difficult Crossrail in London was to build.
@@merrymachiavelli2041 didn't say it was easy.
EPA guidelines require the separation of any remaining combined sewer systems, meaning no sewage can be able to flow to a river during heavy rain events untreated. The fix is not easy and not cheap but it is getting done.
Every time when I listened to her speak the only thing that comes to mind is she's the definition of beauty and brains combined.
You have to be the nicest person in New York
Also, that's how they protest
Meanwhile, in Amsterdam, people swim in the canals all the time. If these cities upgraded their sewer systems as they grew, there would be no problem
It's so much worse than sewage. The larger issue that they don't want to mention is the Catacombs.
Amsterdam has dirty water 💀
Or you could install *separate* sanitary sewer and storm drain networks. That way ONLY sewage goes to the treatment plant and ONLY run off goes to the rivers.
I love your vids so much it makes me 10x smarter❤
Another fascinating scientific video, Cleo 😊 Thank you for sharing this with us 👍
London has already solved the issue, the thames is a clean river by city standards already but we have a new super sewer, all built now and will start operations soon
However England rivers are far from pristine and locals are constantly complaining about E. coli outbreaks due to the same ‘poop in the waterways’ problem. Seaside resorts are shut down due to not being able to swim in the outfall near the beach. English sewage is a very big concern.
@@ValeriePallaoro Right?! I have read somewhere that you can't swim in 90% of the rivers and lakes in the UK whereas you can swim in 90% of the rivers and lakes in Germany.
There's also a significant problem of the "non-french residents" dropping their load anywhere, wiping with a hand, and wiping the hand on anything nearby, like a lamp post.
People with swimphobia be like: “glad that my waste is saving lives…”
I AM EATING RIGHT NOW
IT WOULD BE GREAT IF WE HAD CLEAN
WATER!!!❤
I live in Dallas, and the branch of the Trinity that runs through the city is also highly contaminated and unsafe.
Ayeee
And… NOBODY swims in it. 😐
WHAT A WASTE THIS IS!
How about instead of putting poop in the ocean we put it in the ground????
You can't be serious
If you mean compost toilets, idk if it could work on a large scale without lots of education and safety
E. coli doesn't make you sick. It's just a normal thing in your microbiota. It's just used as a marker species to assess the water pollution by feaces.
That’s only partially correct. Some stains do not however other strains do. The ones she is talking of here do indeed make you sick. The swimmers at the Paris Olympics this year got very ill.
And then they mock India saying we don't have toilets
Well you dont have toilets and if youre brain is capable enough youd find out why they sh*t in the river p@jeet.Not everythings about the grape capital of the world P@jeet😀
Its also sometimes filled with arm long leaches
atleast they are trying
That's a very Inseine problem.
She forgot to mention the brain eating ameoba which is a death sentence 💀
Thats why we love Copenhagen the water running through Copenhagen is clean enogh to swim in but not recommended
Worker: We didn’t finish the job yet..
Mayor: WHAT!? 😵😵
If they can build 20 Olympic pools underground, they definitely can build one more
New Zealand swimmer got sick with E. coli
I wish I had 1% of your energy, optimism, and happiness...
Live in NYC?!? HARD PASS hahahha
Didn't realize there was a positive angle to the story!
Thanks! 😄
And I DO love learning about optimistic space and science stuff!
It did not help. 75% of the triathlon have gotten sick, some very sick, over the last 3 days.
I love the long pause at 1:43
Cool! I live in New York too!
It also costed 1.4b euros and people already got sick
Why does she have Joyce Byers energy form stranger things 😂
Idk it just popped up in my head
Not being offensive
And in a shock to no one dozens of people still got sick from swimming in the sh*t river!🤣🤣🤣🤣
You left out the part where people poop in it to protest right now
I live in DC and the water isn’t as dirty as people say. It’s not just that clean
The east river in nyc is diarrhea green
Portland has a beautifully clean river. Only problem is you have to be in Portland
The LA river literally smells like caca.